WHOLE ALBUM;
ACCELERATE
SONG LIST;
1. “Living Well Is the Best Revenge”
2. “Man-Sized Wreath”
3. “Supernatural Superserious”
4. “Hollow Man”
5. “Houston”
6. “Accelerate”
7. “Until the Day Is Done”
8. “Mr. Richards”
9. “Sing for the Submarine”
10. “Horse to Water”
11. “I'm Gonna DJ”
(Deluxe Edition Side/ B-Side)
1. Redhead Walking
2. Airliner (still need to tab)
Song: Living Well Is The Best Revenge
Band: R.E.M.
Album: Accelerate
Chords used:
BAAbF#EDG
e| x x x x 0 x x |
B| x x x x 0 x x |
G| 8 6 5 3 1 7 4 |
D| 9 7 6 4 2 7 5 |
A| 9 7 6 4 2 5 5 |
E| 7 5 4 2 0 x 3 |
These are just the chord progressions. Email me if you have any questions or comments:
BiscuitsJoe@aol.com
Intro: B
e|--------2---------0-----------------------------------------------------|
B|----------0-2p0-------0---0---------------------------------------------|
G|------4---------4-------4-----------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
A|--0h2-------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Verse:
B
It's only when your poison spins into the life you'd hoped to live
A
and suddenly you wake up in a shaken panic now
B
You had set me up like a lamb to slaughter
Garbo as a farmer's daughter
Unbelievable, the gospel according to who?
A
I lay right down
Chorus:
F#
All your sad and lost apostles
AE
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F#AA/Ab/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
AE
because living well's the best revenge
DAE
Baby, I am calling you on that
Verse:
B
Don't turn your talking points on me.
History will set me free
A
The future is ours and you don't even rate a footnote now!
B
So who's chasing you? Where did you go?
You disappear mid-sentence
In a judgement crisis I see my in and go for it
A
You weakened shill.
Chorus:
F#
All your sad and lost apostles
AE
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F#AA/Ab/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
AE
because living well is the best revenge
DAE
and baby, I am calling you on that
Verse:
B
You savor your dying breath
I forgive but I don't forget
You work it out, let's hear that argument again
A
Camera three... GO NOW!
Chorus:
F#
All your sad and lost apostles
AE
hum my name and flare their nostrils
F#AAb/G/F#
Choking on the bones you tossed to them
F#
now I'm not one to sit and spin
AE
because living well is the best revenge
DAE
and baby, I am calling you on that
DAE
Baby, I am calling you on that
DAE
Baby, I am calling you on that
End on B
Man-Sized Wreath
Intro and Break
Riff1
GG
||--3--3--3h5p3------|
||--3--3-------3h5p3-|
||--4--4-------------| X2
||--5--5-------------|
||-------------------|
||-------------------|
G
Turning on the TV and what do I see?
F#
A pageantry of empty gestures all lined up for me – wow!
G
I'd have thought by now we would be ready to proceed
But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
F#
And a man-sized wreath – ow!
Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
BmE
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care, oh
AmGD
Give me some
G
Wave the palms, still the arms, fists in the air
F#
A motorcade of a night-string(?) shows the people that you care – ow!
G
Nature abhors a vacuum but what's between your ears?
Your judgement cluttered with fearful thoughts
F#
A headlights and a deer – ow!
Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
BmE
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care, oh
AmGD
Give me some
Riff1
G
Well I'm not deceived by pomp and odious conceit
But a tearful hymn to tug the heart
F#
And a man-sized wreath-ow!
Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
BmE
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care, oh
Am
Look at what I've found
D
Everybody look around
BmE
Everybody looking like they just don't care
Am
Throw it on the fire
D
Throw it in the air
BmE
Kick it out on the dance-floor like you just don't care, oh
AmGD
Give me some
AmGD
Give me some
AmGD
Give me some
AmGD
SUPERNATURAL SUPERSERIOUS - R.E.M.
Buck/Mills/Stipe
DAEmADA
Everybody here ... comes from somewhere
EmGDAEmADAEmG
... That they would just as soon forget and disguise
DAEmA
At the summer camp where you volunteered
DAEmG
No one saw your face, no one saw your fear
DAEmA
If that apparition, it just appeared
DAEmG
Took you up and away from this space
DAEmADAEmG
In sheer humiliation, of your teenage station
DAEmA
Nobody cares, no one remembers
DAEmG
And nobody cares
EmGDA
And you cried and you cried
EmGDA
He's alive, he's alive
EmGDA
And you cried and you cried and you cried and you cried
DAEmADAEmGDAEmA
If you call out safe, then I'll stop right away
DAEmG
If the premise buckles, and the rope starts to shake
DAEmA
For the detail's marked, but the story's the same
DAEmG
You don't have to explain, you don't have to explain
DAEmADAEmG
Humiliation ... of your teenage station
EmGDA
Yeah you cried and you cried
EmGDA
He's alive, he's alive
EmGDA
Ah you cried and you cried and you cried
F7MEm
And you realize your fantasies
F7MEm
Are dressed up in travesties
F7MEmCBCA
Enjoy yourself with no regrets, uh uh
DAEmADAEmGDAEmADA
Everybody here ... comes from somewhere
EmGDAEmADAEmG
... That they would just as soon forget ... a disguise
EmGDA
And you cried and you cried
EmGDA
He's alive, he's alive
EmGDA
Yeah you cried and you cried and you cried and you cried
DAEmA
Ah, you cried and you cried
DAEmG
Ah, you cried and you cried
DAEmA
Now, there's nothing dark and there's nothing weird
DAEmG
Don't be afraid, I will hold you near
DAEmA
From the seance where you first betrayed
DAEmG
An open heart on a darkened stage:
DAEmADAEmG
A celebration of your teenage station
DAEmA
Zen experience, sweet delirious
DAEmG
Supernatural superserious
DAEmA
Inexperienced, sweet delirious
DAEmG
Supernatural superserious
D
Wow!
SONG: HOLLOW MAN
Verse Riff:
Part 1:
EDAE-----0--0---0---0-----2------------|
B------0------0----------3---3------|
G---0---1---1--1-----2--------3-----|
D----------2-------0------0----3----|
A-2--------2--------------------0-0-|
E-0------------------------------0--|
Part 2:
EDEE-----0--0---0---0----2---------0-0-0-|
B------0------0--------3--------0-0-0-|
G---0---1---1--1----2---2---1-1-1-1-1-|
D----------2-------0-----0--2-2-2-2-2-|
A-2--------2----------------2-2-2-2-2-|
E-0-----------------------------------|
[Intro] (Only strum chords once during keyboard intro and only strum 3 strings for each.)
E (Use only 3 strings; x221xx)
I've been lost
D(xx023x) A (x033xx)
inside my head,
E (x221xx) D (xx023x) A (x033xx)
Echoes fall off me...
[Verse]
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I took the prize last night for complicated mess.
Verse Riff Part 2: (E, D, E)
For saying things I didn't mean and don't believe in...
[Chorus]
ADC#mBm
Believe In Me, believe in nothing,
ADC#mBm
Corner Me, and make me something,
ADC#mBm
I've become the hollow man,
ADC#mBmE (Back
intro configuration)...
Have I become the hollow man I see?
[Bridge]
E (x221xx) D (xx023x) A (x033xx)
I see this echoing,
[Verse]
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
You had placed your trust in me,
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I went upside down,
Verse Riff Part 1: (E, D, A)
I emptied out the room in 30 seconds flat,
Verse Riff Part 2: (E, D, E)
I can't believe you held your ground
[Chorus]
ADC#mBm
Believe in me, believe in nothing,
ADC#mBm
Corner me and make me something,
ADC#mBm
I've become the Hollow Man,
ADC#mBmE
Have I become the Hollow Man I see?
[Solo Link]
E--0---0----0-0-0-0--0--0--0------------|
B---0---0---0-0-0-0---0--0--0-----------|
G-9---7-----6-4-7-6-7--7--7-------------|
D---------------------------------------|
A-----------------------------5-4--5-4--|
E--------------------------------5----5-|
[Chorus]
ADC#mBm
I'm overwhelmed, I'm on repeat,
ADC#mBm
I'm emptied out, I'm incomplete,
ADC#mBm
You trusted me, I want to show you,
ADC#mBm
I don't want to be the Hollow Man...
[Chorus]
ADC#mBm
Believe in me, believe in nothing,
ADC#mBm
Corner me, and make me something,
ADC#mBm
I've become the Hollow Man,
ADC#mBm
Have I become the Hollow Man I see?...
ADC#mBm
I see...
ADC#mBm (x2)
End on A.
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Houston - R.E.M.
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Tabbed by: MisterJones
Email:misterjones987@yahoo.de
Any comments or questions are welcome.
Tuning: Standard
D5 xx023x
Am7 x0201x
C x3201x
G 32000x
F5/D xx056x
E5/D xx045x
D* xx7710x
C* xx558x
Intro:
| F5/D | E5/D |
Verse:
| D5 | Am7 | C | G |
| D5 | Am7 | Fill1 |
Chorus:
| D* | C* | (3x)
| F | G |
Fill1: CG
e|-----------------|
B|-----------------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-------3-2-0-2---|
E|-----------------|
Fill2: C
e|---------5-7-----|
B|-------8---------|
G|-----------------|
D|-----------------|
A|-----------------|
E|-----------------|
Notes:
In the verse it seems that Peter does not hit the high e string but he
strums every chord once and then the stays at the melodic strings til the
next chord.
D5Am7
If the storm doesn't kill me
CG
the government will
D5Am7 Fill1
I've gotta get that out of my head
DAm7CG
It's a new day today and the coffee is strong
DAm7 Fill11
I finally got some rest
So a man's put to task and challenges
I was taught to hold my head high
Collect what is mine,
Make the best of what today has
D* C* Fill2
Houston is filled with promise
D* C*
Laredo's a beautiful place
D* C* Fill2
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
FG
Its meaning has not been erased
And so there are claims forgiven
And so there are things that are gone
Houston is filled with promise
Laredo is a beautiful place
and Galveston sings like that song that I loved
Its meaning has not been erased
F
And some things, they fall to the wayside
GD5
Their memory is yet to be stilled
F
Belief has not failed me
GD5
And so I am put to the test
Song: Accelerate
Album: Accelerate
Artist: R.E.M.
Chords used
E-A-D-G-B-E (Strings)
A5 5-7-7-x-x-x
G5 3-5-5-x-x-x
F# x-9-11-11-x-x
G x-10-12-12-x-x
A x-12-14-14-x-x
Intro
E- xxxxxxxxxxxx
B- 0
G- 0 x2
D- 11
A- 9
E - xxxxxxxxxxx
Verse chords
*F#* *G*
Chorus Chords
*F#* *G*--*A*----*G*
END OF CHORUS
A5G5
(Verse chords)
Sinking fast, the weight chained to my feet
No time to argue with belief
I'm not alone, a thousand others dropping
Faster than me
What put me here?
Nothing to hold on to
Nowhere to brake
(Chorus Chords)
Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
(END OF CHORUS chords)
I've got to follow another direction (although fall down is much cooler)
(Verse chords)
The last thing I remember was climbing up the stairs
I threw the window open in challenge and despair
I don't know what I needed
I needed time
I needed to escape
I saw the future turn
Upside-down and hesitate.
(Chorus Chords)
Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
(END OF CHORUS chords)
I've got to follow another direction
*F#* *A* *G*
Accelerate.
(Verse chords)
The vista I see now is changing
Uncertainty is suffocating
Our hope has never felt so great and
Lit up down
A pounding pulse
To make it go
Make it slow down,
Go.
(Chorus Chords)
Where is the ripcord, the trapdoor, the key?
Where is the cartoon escape-hatch for me?
No time to question the choices I make
(END OF CHORUS chords)
I've got to follow another direction.
(Verse chords)
The city's burning, it's like it's ready to explode
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go
Accelerate to make it slow
Make it go
(END OF CHORUS chords)
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete
I'm incomplete.
Outro
E- xxxxxxxxxxxx
B- 0
G- 0 x2
D- 11
A- 9
E - xxxxxxxxxxx
Just mess around with the outro to make it like the CD does
Any questions or comments?
Riley_rousseau_allen@yahoo.com
REM
Until The Day is Done
Tuning- DADGBD
Intro : DCGDDCGD
The battle's been lost, the war is not won
DCGD
An addled republic, a bitter refund
DCGD
The business first flat earthers licking their wounds
DCGD
The verdict is dire, the country's in ruins
CGD
Providence blinked, facing the sun
CGD
Where are we left to carry on
Am7GD
Until the day is done
A7GD
Until the day is done
DCGD
As we've written our stories to entertain
DCGD
These notions of glory and bull market gain
DCGD
The teleprompt flutters, the power surge brings
DCGD
An easy speed message falls into routine
CGD
Providence blinked, facing the sun
CGD
Where are we left to carry on
Am7GD
Until the day is done
A7GD
Until the day is done
GD
A voice whispers "Son,
GD
The blessed vision comes."
GD
What have I done
GA7
What have I done
DCGD
So hold tight your babies and your guns
DCGD
Forgive us our trespasses, father and son
CGD
Providence blinked, facing the sun
CGD
Where are we left to carry on
Am7GD
Until the day is done
A7GD
Until the day is done
Am7GD
Until the day is done
FINAL :
CGD
Song: Mr. Richards
E5: 079900 E7M : 079890
Intro: E5
[Verse]
E5E7ME5E7M
Mr. Richards, your position is a messenger pigeon,
E5E7ME5
left behind you when the camp moved on.
E5E7ME5E7M
You thought that you had listened but the words had never crystallized,
E5E7ME5
into a truth that you might own, hey hey
[Chorus]
Asus2E5E7M
Mr Richards your decision, pay attention pay attention
[Verse]
E5E7ME5E7M
Mr. Richards your forgiven for a narrow lack of vision,
E5E7ME5
but the firesare still raging on...
E5E7ME5E7M
The public's got opinions and these consequences border on the compound that
E5E7ME5
razed where zealots sang, hey, hey
[Chorus]
Asus2E5E7M
Mr. Richards, your decision, pay attention, pay attention
[Bridge]
D
So listen, your intention, sign the paper, stamp the ribbon,
E5E7ME5
You're mistaken if you think we'll just forget.
DA
You can thump your chest and rattle, stand in front of your piano but,
GF#m7E5GF#m7E5
We know, what's going on, Yes, we know what's going on,
GF#m7E5
We're the children of the choir hey,
GF#m7E5
And we know what's going on.
[Verse]
E5E7ME5E7M
Mr. Richards your conviction, had us cheering in the kitchen,
E5E7ME5
now the jury's eating pigeon pie,
E5E7ME5E7M
So tell me how is prison, have they taught you how to listen?,
E5E7ME5
We've begun to bridge the schism, pay attention pay attention,
[Chorus]
Asus2E5E7M
Mr. Richards your decision, pay attention, pay attention.
[Bridge]
DA
You can thump your chest and rattle,stand in front of your piano but,
GF#m7E5GF#m7E5
We know what's going on, Yes we know what's going on,
GF#m7E5GF#m7E5
We're the children of the choir hey, from the compound fire hey,
GF#m7E5
And we know what's going on,
GF#m7E5
Yes we know what's going on.
Outro: GF#m7E5 x2
Song: SING FOR THE SUBMARINE
opening/verse chord progression:
Bm C/Bm
It feels in dreams
That everything is there for you
The city breathes and pulses
It's fuel electron blue
I knew that you could see right through it
So this is where I give in to the machine
Lift up your voice feel gravity's pull
Drown out the siren's ring (or silent dream)
Oh...
Am
It's all here where I keep it
Dm
It's all in the submarine
Am
It's all a lot less frightening
Dm
than you would have had it be
Am
But that's the good news my darling
Dm
It is what it's going to be
BBbGEm
So sing, sing for the submarine
Back to verse:
I tried to explain how it all begins
How its all destroyed and built again
I knew that you could not believe me
But now you're here and it's different
How the light shines in your eyes
In every second or situ
It's then that I realised
That the world as we know it
The High speed train
We'll pick it all up and start again
Chorus Chords:
It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine
Break Down: F#B-BbD-DbDb-D-E5-F#
Back to verse chords:
The city did not collapse in a shudder
The rain it never came
At least my confessions made you laugh
I know it's a little crazed
But these dreams...
they seem so real to me
CHORUS:
It's all here where I keep it
It's all in the submarine
It's all a lot less frightening
than you would have had it be
But that's the good news my darling
It is what it's going to be
So sing, sing for the submarine
So this is where you trust me
And this where it begins
It's all a lot less frightening
Your tear you let it in
Tyrel and his mechanical owl
A moth disguised as a leaf...
Don't tell me what tomorrow brings
Climb into the hidden machine and
sing sing sing sing sing sing
sing sing for the submarine
"Horse To Water"
B
I could have kept my head down
B
I might have kept my mouth shut
B
I should have held my own,
B
You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown.
SAME PROGRESSION AGAIN:
You're only as big as your battles.
Rattle my cage with your shadow.
I'm a phantom-weight with a mouth full of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?
EmB
I'm not that easy,
A5B
I am not your horse to water.
EmBA5
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.
VERSE PROGRESSION AGAIN:
Don't darken my doorstep again,
You're mixing up living in chin-chin,
You're mixing up lose with win-win,
You lead a horse to water and you watch him drown.
You stumble on glass top table,
TV's chewing shock-gone cable
Pump me up a beanstalk fable
And I'll call this entertainment
'cause Humpty's falling down.
CHORUS:
I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.
VERSE
Pick a fight an ultra-buzzy bubble
Friday night fuckin' fried-up pub crawl
Phantom-weight with a mouth full of feathers,
Don't you know that what comes around goes around?
CHORUS
I'm not that easy,
I am not your horse to water.
I hold my breath I come around, round, round.
It's not that easy
I am not your horse to water
I hold my breath, I come around, round, round
ENDING
A-B-A-G
It's going down, down, down
G-A-G-F#
This runaround, round, round
F#-G-F#-F
Is bound to pound
Em
The daylights out of you!
I'm Gonna DJ
If death is pretty final, I'm collected vinyl
GA#-G-A#CD
I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world
Cos if heaven does exist with a kickin' playlist
GA#-G-A#CD
I don't want to miss it at the end of the world
D5
Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
D5
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready
D5E5D5E5
It's on my mind, it's in my mind
D5E5D5E5
It's what I found, it's what I find
(Same progression as above)
It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, oh my my my
E5
When I spin my way right through it grates enthusiast Jack Pruett
E5D5C
As the moths circle the moon, as you're circling the room
E5
Music will provide the light you cannot resist
D5C
you cannot resist, you cannot resist
G7
And the weblogs that get tangled as you bully and you wangle
When you walk up in Seattle, where you fought the nascent battle
G7
You threw the thread and throttle let us raise another bottle
Raise another bottle, raise another bottle
Because death is pretty final, I'm collecting vinyl
GA#-G-A#CD
I'm gonna DJ at the end of the world
(SAME CHORD PROGRESSIONS AS MENTIONED ABOVE, BASICALLY)
Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready
It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, it's what I find
It's on my mind, it's in my mind
It's what I found, oh my my my
Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready
Hey steady steady, hey steady steady
I don't wanna go till I'm good and ready
Music will provide the light you cannot resist
You cannot resist, you cannot resist
Yeah
Song: Redhead Walking
Album: Accelerate (Deluxe Edition)
RedHead Walking
The whole song is just 3 chords in one constant progression
EmG5A5G5
Listen to the song to get the strum pattern
Solo:
G---15b-14-12 (repeat as much as necessary)
lyrics:
Out there are silver dressed darlings
And ramen mein delights
When ginger hair gets all fired up
She beats them in the night
That redhead walking, uh
Don't get close
She'll warn you with her growl
She's a bud cuttin', star studded, leather chested girl
Out there a redhead walkin'
Redhead walkin'
The redhead walkin'
Better listen keep your distance from the crimson crime warpath
O kiss that girl
Kiss that girl
Kiss that girt
Yeah, she'll cut your heart like diamonds
End of story
You bet you're gonna lose it to that hellbound crimson glory
There — a redhead walkin'
A redhead walkin'
A redhead walkin'
Heed what this wise man says
Keep away from redheads...
(Stipe Screams) AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Ow! that hurt!)